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Each Tuesday, Sony refreshes the weekly deals on PS4, PS3, and PS Vita games on the PlayStation Store. And while many other retailers are offering barebones sales this week (presumably saving their best deals for Black Friday), the PlayStation Store has some fine discounts on great games this week. As usual, to get the discounts on some of the games, you’ll need a PlayStation Plus membership.

For starters, most PS4 Final Fantasy games are on sale, so if you’ve been waiting for a sale to round out your collection, now is a good time to buy. Final Fantasy VII is on sale for $10, while Final Fantasy IX will run you $12.60. Next come a pair of remasters, with Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster on sale for $15 and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age down to $25.

Also on sale is the recent Tomb Raider trilogy. You can grab Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for $6, Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration for $12, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider–which just came out in September–for $30.

Those who only want to spend a few bucks can pick up a handful of games for next to nothing. The often-overlooked Square Enix game Murdered: Soul Suspect is on sale for just $2 right now. For $6, you can buy Just Cause 3 to get ready for the upcoming sequel. And if you’re into smaller-scale games, you can grab Hitman Go: Definitive Edition for $2 or Lara Croft Go for $2.50.

You’ll find more of our picks listed below, or you can head to the PlayStation Store to find the full sale, encompassing over 600 items. To see if any of these deals will be beat on Black Friday, check out our roundup of all the best PS4 Black Friday deals you’ll find next week.

When Jovan Adepo first read the script for Overlord during the auditioning process, he was excited. “I was just thinking to myself, ‘This is an incredibly ambitious film,'” the actor told GameSpot during a recent interview.

Overlord follows a small squad of World War II paratroopers on a mission to destroy a radio tower on the eve of the famous Normandy landing in 1944. In a small French village, they discover horrifying experiments being perpetrated by evil Nazi scientists. Adepo plays Boyce, a member of the squad and the movie’s main protagonist.

Naturally, in addition to the film’s ambition, Adepo also liked one of the names attached to the movie: producer J.J. Abrams. “When my agent first told me about it and he told me who was involved, you know, I was obviously intrigued,” Adepo said. But it was more than just working with Abrams. Adepo spent much of production wondering the same thing as many fans: whether Overlord was going to be a Cloverfield movie.

“I’m a digger, man. I came from a journalist background, so I’m naturally very nosy,” Adepo said. “I was watching Cloverfield Paradox right after the Super Bowl, and I was really curious as to how we were going to be connected to them, or if we were at all.”

The question was treated as mystery internally, just like it was to those outside the movie. At one point, Adepo flat out asked: “It might not have been the smartest thing, but whatever–I just went up to one of the producers and I was like, ‘Hey are we a part of the Cloverfield universe? And he was like, ‘Uh, Jovan, I don’t know,’ and I know he knew, but he just wasn’t going to tell me. But I mean, that’s what you expect. Bad Robot is very good at keeping everything in this ‘mystery box’ until it’s the perfect time.”

Adepo said if there were Cloverfield connections in the early version of the script that he saw during auditioning, he never noticed them. And the script apparently underwent only minor changes after that, such as altering Boyce’s background after Adepo was cast. Adepo said the producers allowed the question to float around set well into production. But eventually, they came clean to the cast.

“There was a moment, from what I can remember, when we were doing a couple of pickups, where they just knew that we were very curious about the whole thing, and they were like, ‘No guys, we’re kind of just teasing you,'” Adepo recalled. “‘We were just pulling your leg. We very much wanted this to be its on thing.’ Because when it was conceived, it was its own thing.”

Naturally, not every production from Abrams’ Bad Robot studio is going to wind up being a secret Cloverfield movie, like 10 Cloverfield Lane and Cloverfield Paradox were. Overlord’s potential place in that canon felt both likely and unlikely; on one hand, a movie set during World War II would take place long before the events that set any of the other Cloverfield films in motion, but on the other, Overlord’s mix of grounded action and sci-fi horror is the exact right kind of weird to fit.

Adepo said he was intimidated to work with Abrams either way–until he met him. “It was a really cool experience, and it was really cool to meet him, because, you know, just seeing him only in videos and in interviews and stuff, he’s so intimidating to me,” Adepo said. “But to get to meet him in person, he’s one of the kindest people I’ve met, and he just genuinely wants you to do well.”

Abrams visited the set in England multiple times to check on production and offer his own creative input. “It’s so cool to see him walk around and just like, smile to himself and nod his head, and he’s like, ‘Show me the next thing, because I think you’re doing a good job,'” Adepo said. “When J.J. flies from Los Angeles to England to see the work on the film and he’s just smiling the whole time, you’re doing your job.”

He said Julius Avery, Overlord’s director, deserves a lot of credit for having a clear vision and executing it while also balancing the studios’ demands. “[Julius] walked in the first day of pre-production with this idea of the type of movie that he wanted to make,” Adepo said. “This is a guy who is in love with action movies, the classical heist film–that’s like, his jam. His favorite movie is Heat, for Christ’s sake. So when came into this movie, he knew exactly what he wanted to do. And of course, when you’re working with the studio, you have to learn to collaborate and be efficient in your collaboration, because everybody’s bringing great ideas to the forefront. You want to just try to mix it as much as you can and still come out with your movie.”

Cloverfield tie-in or not, Adepo thinks the people who will enjoy the movie most are the ones who understand what it’s supposed to be. “I’ve heard people talk about it’s like one of those classic B horror films,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong–you know, my first film was [1950s period drama] Fences. I get like, the importance of heightened drama and, you know, proper filmmaking. But like, you want to be able to go to a movie and enjoy a movie without it speaking to the social climate of what’s going on right now, or whatever the case may be. You know what I mean?”

“We get enough of that every day in the news,” he continued. “You want to have a moment where you can go to the movies, get some popcorn with your buddies or go on a date, and just see a really fun movie that’s high energy that’s going to keep you involved, and that’s exactly what Bad Robot wanted to do with this film. And I think we accomplished that.”

Overlord is in theaters now.

Black Friday 2018 is set to officially kick off on November 23 but retailers are getting people primed to spend their hard-earned cash by revealing their ads early. For those looking to drop some dollars on new entertainment hardware, games, or pretty much anything else, this is actually pretty helpful as you can compare prices to find the best deals ahead of time.

Walmart’s Black Friday ad is already available, and you can also get an early peek at Best Buy’s and Target’s too. Now, Sam’s Club has also unveiled its ad a little early, and we’ve gone through to pick out everything that may be of interest to anyone that loves to park themselves in front of a screen to enjoy a movie, game, or TV show.

As noted on the Sam’s Club website, customers will need to return on November 22 for more event pricing, and many of the deals visible in the advert now may not be available until that date too. For someone looking to do a complete overhaul of their setup–and has a lot of cash to work with–the retailer is offering a 75″ Samsung 4K TV along with an Xbox One S (1TB) for $2,280.

In terms of console specific deals, you can get the PlayStation 4 1TB with Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man for $199. It’s worth keeping in mind that this is the slim version of the PS4, and not the more powerful PlayStation 4 Pro. If you’re in the market for an Xbox One, the S model is available as part of the Minecraft Creators bundle for $199. Again, if you want the most powerful Xbox One on the market, you’ll need to seek out deals on the Xbox One X instead.

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Black Friday 2018 is going to be the ideal opportunity to grab yourself some video games that you can play with family and friends throughout the holiday season. Sports games are always a great way to pass some time, settle existing feuds, or start new ones, and if you’re a fan of basketball, NBA 2K19 is probably something you’ll want to consider grabbing.

It seems that most retailers have reached the same discount price for NBA 2K19, with the game available for $30 at Best Buy, Target, and Walmart across both their PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions. You can find links to them below.

In GameSpot’s NBA 2K19 review, Michael Higham said the “core NBA 2K mechanics are challenging and rewarding” and that it offers a variety of game modes to enjoy. “If you want to immerse yourself in the sport and culture, NBA 2K19 has you covered with a breadth of content,” he continued. “But even that has its limitations after several years of iterations. Although those willing to grind for everything will eventually get rewarded, the system of VC still comes off as exploitative. But there’s a lot of fun to be had in NBA 2K19 despite its flaws, especially if you have a strong love for the sport.

“NBA 2K19 dishes out what you’d expect from the franchise: accessible yet deep core mechanics that often work just right and occasionally falter. Beyond that, there’s a full roster of ways to enjoy the sport thanks to a robust package of game modes.”

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If you’d like to see more of the deals that Best Buy, Target, and Walmart have on offer, check out our full Black Friday 2018 roundup. Along with video game hardware and software, you’ll also find some of the noteworthy discounts on TV sets and other entertainment equipment that we’ve seen in the lead up to Black Friday.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is finally coming to PS4. Sony announced the news today in a new trailer, which you can watch above. The video reveals a release date of December 7.

PUBG will launch on PS4 with all three maps: Erangel, Miramar, and Sanhok. Developer PUBG Corp. states the PlayStation version will contain “all major features, ranked system, event mode, achievements and much more.”

Pre-orders are live now, with bundles ranging from $30 / £25 / AU $40 to $60 / £50 / AU $85, depending on how many in-game coins you want and whether you desire a Survivor Pass. All those who do buy the game in advance of launch will receive two platform-exclusive items: a Nathan Drake outfit from Uncharted and Ellie’s backpack from The Last of Us. PUBG Corp. also states the game is “enhanced for PS4 Pro systems, including support for HDR lighting on compatible TV sets.”

PUBG first came to PC in March 2017 as part of Steam’s early access program. It later came to Xbox One as an Xbox Game Preview title, and launched fully on those platforms in December 2017 and September 2018, respectively. Microsoft announced recently that PUBG would be among 15 games coming to Xbox Game Pass in November.

A PS4 version has been heavily rumored for some time, and a PlayStation port was listed by the South Korean ratings board in September. Before that, developer PUBG Corp. had stated it wanted its hit battle royale game to come to “every platform.”

The Xbox One version was successful at launch, selling more than 1 million units in the first 48 hours despite still being in beta at that point. Since that time, PUBG Corp. has supported the shooter with a multitude of updates, including new maps, weapons, and modes.

The first five Survivor Series PPVs hewed close to the stated theme: 5-on-5 or 4-on-4 Elimination matches, which would often be 20 minutes or more in length. But the sixth Survivor Series PPV, in 1992, had a single Survivor Series match; the rest were single or tag matches, like any other PPV. WWE even planned to change the name of the PPV in 2010; they only kept it due to fan outcry.

The fact is, it’s difficult to make these types of matches narratively coherent; there are just too many wrestlers involved for each of them to have a personal stake in the outcome. That’s why last year and this year’s Survivor Series, which book everything as a Raw vs. Smackdown contest, work so well. There doesn’t need to be personal issues at play, just straightforward “brand supremacy” contest. The fans get dream matches (like the upcoming rematch between AJ Styles and Brock Lesnar), and they don’t disrupt the single-brand storylines for an entire month..

When Survivor Series is booked haphazardly, you get weird teams like the ones in this gallery. Why are they friends? Why should we care? Don’t worry about any of that, and don’t overthink it. Here are eight of the weirdest WWE Survivor Series team-ups of all time.

If you liked this gallery, check out the most shocking moments in Survivor Series history, check out the match card for the upcoming Survivor Series PPV, and be sure to visit Gamespot on Sunday, November 18, when we will cover the entire event live.

Rainbow Six Siege’s new season, Wind Bastion, is scheduled to be revealed soon, but the update’s new Operators appear to have leaked ahead of schedule. Videos uploaded to the game’s subreddit depict characters named Nomad and Kaid, teasing a full reveal for the Pro League Finals on November 18.

Kaid, a Defender, seemingly carries an electrified device to prevent attackers breaching hatches. The Attacker Nomad, meanwhile, appears to have some form of wind push ability. Both Operators come from Morocco’s GIGR (Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Royale).

Wind Bastion also contains a new map for all players named Fortress, a military facility in the Atlas Mountains. According to Ubisoft, the “map will be comprised of two distinguishable sections offering a variety of open space, points of cover, and lines of sight for both close and long range engagements.” Fortress is also “the first ever map to be heavily associated with an Operator.” Ubisoft has not announced whether that Operator is one of the two new ones, or a member of Siege‘s existing roster.

One of the major changes coming to Siege at the start of Season 4 will be censorship of certain in-game environments and icons. Ubisoft is removing references to specific mature content, like gambling and sex, in Siege ahead of its release in Asian territories that have heavier content restrictions.

Siege’s last major patch, Update Y3S3.2, addressed many of the bugs that previously existed in the game. The update also added balancing changes to both Clash and Maestro, two Operators that Ubisoft felt were underused. Two firearms, the SMG-11 and Vector, were also patched to reduce recoil and improve the weapons’ handling.